A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c. : To which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most noted pirates. Interspersed with several remarkable tryals of the most notorious malefactors, at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, London. Adorn'd with the effigies ... engraved on copper-plates.
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A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c. : To which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most noted pirates. Interspersed with several remarkable tryals of the most notorious malefactors, at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, London. Adorn'd with the effigies ... engraved on copper-plates.
- Publication date
- 1742
- Topics
- Pirates, Brigands and robbers
- Publisher
- Birmingham: : Printed by R. Walker ...
- Collection
- bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 1.1G
Earlier editions attributed to Daniel Defoe. Cf. ESTC; Moore, J.R. Defoe (2nd ed.), 458
Some editions were earlier ascribed to Charles Johnson, an assumed name, according to DNB, BLC, NUC pre-1956, and Gosse, P. Bibl. of Capt. Charles Johnson
Running title: A general history of pyrates, highwaymen, murders, &c
Errors in pagination: 122-123, 233, 236 and 336 misnumbered as 121-122, 236, 233 and 332
Title in red and black. Printed in double columns
Index: p. 427-[428]
A "facetious rehash" of Smith's Complete history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen (London, 1714) with added material from Daniel Defoe's A general history of the pyrates (London, 1724)--J.R. Moore, Defoe in the pillory (Bloomington, 1939), p. 131-2
ESTC
Gosse, P. Capt. Charles Johnson
Some editions were earlier ascribed to Charles Johnson, an assumed name, according to DNB, BLC, NUC pre-1956, and Gosse, P. Bibl. of Capt. Charles Johnson
Running title: A general history of pyrates, highwaymen, murders, &c
Errors in pagination: 122-123, 233, 236 and 336 misnumbered as 121-122, 236, 233 and 332
Title in red and black. Printed in double columns
Index: p. 427-[428]
A "facetious rehash" of Smith's Complete history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen (London, 1714) with added material from Daniel Defoe's A general history of the pyrates (London, 1724)--J.R. Moore, Defoe in the pillory (Bloomington, 1939), p. 131-2
ESTC
Gosse, P. Capt. Charles Johnson
Notes
Tight margins through entire book, some text may be cut off. As much captured as possible.
- Addeddate
- 2008-11-24 14:48:41
- Associated-names
- Johnson, Charles, fl. 1724-1731; Smith, Alexander, fl. 1714-1726
- Call number
- 39999063211765
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:963589827
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- generaltruehisto00defo
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t1dj5q87v
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL22880932M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL411579W
- Page_number_confidence
- 78
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 490
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Ppi
- 300
- References
- ESTC, t120316; Gosse, P. Capt. Charles Johnson, 12
- Scandate
- 20081124200154
- Scanfactors
- 27
- Scanner
- scribe10.boston.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- boston
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 10941208
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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